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Lukewarm Expressions
The University Senate may have found an acceptable way to uphold academic freedom. During the latter part of the September 15th plenary,...
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Nathan’s Rules of Order
Maybe this year’s CCSC will have less procedural headaches. During the first general body meeting of Columbia College Student Council,...
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Blue Notes March 2017
I am sure we’ve all wondered at the ghastly mural that greets the intrepid scholar upon entering Butler Library. With its...
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Blue Notes February 2017
“It was supposed to be silly,” Daniel Stone recalls. However flippant in intention, in March of 2016, Stone together with Jeremy Liss,...
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Blue Notes, October 2016
A little known Columbia factoid is that the the tunnel complex underneath Dodge is named “The Grove.” According to urban legend, the...
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Blue Notes, Orientation 2016
Columbia University is most well known among the Ivies for its infamous Core Curriculum. While kids at Brown can haphazardly choose any...
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Blue Notes, December 2015
The prospect of briefing college administrators on one’s menstrual habits may seem invasive and weird, but legend holds that Barnard used...
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Blue Notes, November 2015
Those of you who do not enjoy making small talk in campus elevators: look around (not at your phone). You will surely come across signs...
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Who Let the Dogs Out?
In an ongoing series that has included campus cats and campus humans, The Blue and White now brings you a guide to campus dogs.
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Blue Notes, November 2015
Those of you who do not enjoy making small talk in campus elevators: look around (not at your phone). You will surely come across signs...
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Blue Notes, Orientation 2015
A full loop on the shuttle from Columbia’s Morningside campus to the Medical School and back will take you past five different...
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Blue Notes, Orientation 2015
A full loop on the shuttle from Columbia’s Morningside campus to the Medical School and back will take you past five different...
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Blue Notes, May 2015
Once a week, Kirby, Yoshi, Jigglypuff, and their Nintendo friends come to life on a motley assortment of old cathode ray TVs in Lerner’s...
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Blue Notes, April 2015
They say there’s no smoke without fire. At Columbia, there’s no snow without a brush to sweep it aside, or salt to melt it—no matter the...
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Blue Notes, December 2014
Columbia’s mascot was almost a goat called Matilda. Around the turn of the twentieth century, she lived in Morningside Heights and...
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Blue Notes, October 2014
Having a conversation in the smallest room on campus is awkwardly cozy. Bed, dresser, and desk almost completely cover the room’s 79...
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Blue Notes, Orientation 2014
“Halal” is an Arabic word that means “permissible.” Permissible according to Islamic law that is, not necessarily New York City health...
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Blue Notes, May 2014
For all its history, the Metro Theater on 99th Street and Broadway strikes me as little more than an eyesore beside the slick glass...
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Blue Notes, March 2014
Who owns the air? This philosophical question is painfully real for some, including DJ Fresh Kid (aka Sean Bruce, 40) who was arrested...
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